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In the News (Thu 31 Dec 09)

  
  South Wales
The new castle after which the town is named is now a fascinating ruin, built by Sir Rhys ap Thomas on the site of an older castle.
Pembroke Castle's present limestone fortress with its 16-ft (t-metre) thick walls was built by the Normans between 1190 and 1245 on an older site and, like Tenby Castle, has the dubious distinction of having been attacked by both sides during the Civil War.
These are just three of the Norman castles dating from the 12th century that run in a straight line across the county through Llawhaden and Haverfordwest to Roch on the west coast.
www.geocities.com /nashville/bluegrass/2235/index14.htm   (3547 words)

  
  Middle Cove, New South Wales - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Middle Cove is a suburb of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia.
It is surrounded by the suburbs of Castlecrag, Willoughby and Castle Cove.
Although small in both population and size, Middle Cove contains the beautiful and serene Harold Reid Reserve, a large national park area that brings many tourists to the area.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Middle_Cove,_New_South_Wales   (112 words)

  
 Sydney - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Macquarie's tenure as Governor of New South Wales was a period when Sydney was improved from its basic beginnings.
The oldest parts of the city are located in the flat areas; the Hornsby Plateau, known as the North Shore, was slower to develop because of its hilly topography, and was mostly a quiet backwater until the Sydney Harbour Bridge was opened in 1932, linking it to the rest of the city.
Public anger resulted in the introduction of a new timetable, the employment of more drivers and a large infrastructure project, called the Clearways project, which is scheduled to be completed by 2010.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sydney   (4426 words)

  
 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: The Irish (In Countries Other Than Ireland)
In 1855 the first state emigration depot was opened in Castle Garden at the lower end of Manhattan Island, and since then millions of immigrants have streamed through this gateway, under the inspection and protection of the officials, on their way to the various places throughout the land where they were to make their homes.
His brother James was in charge of one of the New York regiments and succeeded to the command made vacant by the death of General Montgomery, and his nephew De Witt Clinton became governor of that state in 1817.
New Brunswick was separated from Nova Scotia in 1784, when the United Empire Loyalists, among whom were a few Protestant Irish, began to arrive.
www.newadvent.org /cathen/08132b.htm   (16258 words)

  
 Old Maps of New York by Grace Galleries of Harpswell Maine
Depicts the New Jersey shore of the Hudson River with Jersey City and Hoboken to Weehawken; and shows Bedloes Is. in the Upper Bay and the Jersey Flats.
The New York and New Haven Railroad and the Byram River bisect the town which is heavily settled in its center with large landholdings around its perimeter.
The lands south of the Mohawk show and name property owners and their lands with dates, and many rivers including a Branch of the Delaware; lakes and connecting roads.
www.gracegalleries.com /NewYork_Listings.htm   (6831 words)

  
 Time for some idle pleasures - Tidelines - {Columns} - Travel - theage.com.au
Castle Rock is exposed to weather changes from the south and west, so don't anchor here at night.
But Camp Cove, the first landing place of Europeans in the harbour, is the pick of the swimming holes on the eastern shores.
Anchoring is restricted to outside the marked area and boat wake is abundant, but the water is clear, the sun lingers and you can float in to the kiosk for a treat in summer.
www.theage.com.au /news/tidelines/time-for-some-idle-pleasures/2005/08/31/1125302613620.html   (1343 words)

  
 Newsletters from adventures in Golf
The Prince of Wales is heir to the throne in Britain and from this royal connection Wales is sometimes referred to as a 'principality'.
Recent changes to the course mean that the new finishing holes wind through trees and gorse, placing a premium on accuracy while giving some welcome respite from the prevailing wind, to which the largely flat linksland is fearfully exposed.
Dramatic castles at Caernarfon and Penrhyn attract the sightseer, the former witnessing the investiture of the Prince of Wales, while Penrhyn, with its collection of Old Masters, is an art-lover's paradise.
www.adventures-in-golf.com /newsletters-2001-winter-spring6.html   (2423 words)

  
 CastleCottage
Castle Cottage is a former stone coach house that has been carefully converted into a modern comfortable accommodation while maintaining its historic ambiance with thick stone walls, fireplaces, open beams, oak doors and floors, and original ironwork filigree.
However Castle Cottage is only 25 minutes away from Cork, the largest city in the south of Ireland, and 20 minutes from Cobh (pronounced "Cove"), the historic last landfall of the Titanic and the embarkation point for mass Irish emigration to North America and elsewhere.
Also near Castle Cottage is Fota Island Golf Club, a fine, modern course that welcomes visitors and was the site of the Irish Open Golf Tournament in 2001 and 2002.
www.homeatfirst.com /castleco.htm   (450 words)

  
 Welsh Castles
Wales was always a very turbulent land, and is full of ancient Celtic hill forts, but the invaders introduced the idea of castles.
Superb castle on a high crag in the middle of an extremely rural part of Wales; at one point it was the hang-out of a gang of bandits who terrorized the region; has a nifty cave under it that can be reached via a 'secret' passage.
There are a LOT of Welsh castles I've only seen from the outside (Cilgerran and White Castle, for example, and I couldn't photograph Conway because I was out of film and couldn't buy any), and that's because I was there on a Sunday, or during one of their peculiar 'lunch' breaks, or whatever.
www.britcastles.com /welshcas.htm   (1690 words)

  
 NEW SOUTH WALES LOCAL HISTORY
Alexander Green dispatched 409 offenders in his official role of Hangman and Finisher of the Law in the colony of New South Wales.
The story of the City of Newcastle, New South Wales; its birth, its development and its place in Australia.
JOSEPH The Journal Of A Journey From New South Wales To Adelaide Performed in 1838 by Mr Joseph Hawdon.
www.bspgallery.com.au /nswloc.htm   (2861 words)

  
 Newcastle - New South Wales - Australia - Travel - smh.com.au
With a population of over 250 000 Newcastle is the second-largest city in New South Wales and the sixth-largest in Australia.
Looking south, back down into the gully, there is a lovely octagonal band rotunda (1898) with finial, columns, balustrades and intricate lacework, all of cast iron, as well as a frieze around the base.
The large inland body of water to the south is Lake Macquarie with Cockle Creek wending westwards and, at dusk, the bright lights of Cardiff are plainly visible at the northern end of the lake.
www.smh.com.au /news/New-South-Wales/Newcastle/2005/02/17/1108500198331.html   (9138 words)

  
 New York Ship Arrivals 1897
Hobbs in the ladies' waiting room in the New York end of the big structure, and therefore, the surgeon claims, the boy is a Greater New Yorker.
New York, June 15.-Lightship No. 51, that lies off Sandy Hook, was towned[sic] in to-day from her station to go into dry dock for an overhauling.
His idea is for every person in New England to put in a dollar, thus rasing a fund of $5,000,000, wherewith to accomplish the purchase of the 70,000 acres comprised in the range.
theshipslist.com /ships/Arrivals/ellisisland1897.html   (8591 words)

  
 Lachlan Macquarie
Scottish soldier and governor of the colony of New South Wales from 1810-1821, whose term of office was noted for humanitarian treatment of ex-convicts, encouragement of public works programs, inland exploration and the creation of new towns.
They included new army barracks and three new barrack buildings for convicts, roads to Parramatta and across the Blue Mountains, a hospital, castle-like stables (now housing the New South Wales Conservatorium of Music) and five planned towns built out of reach of floodwaters along the Hawkesbury River.
Complaints to England resulted in the dispatch to New South Wales in 1819 of English judge John Thomas Bigge (1780-1843) to inquire into the affairs of the colony.
members.tripod.com /virtaus4/volume6/misc/lachlan_macquarie.htm   (636 words)

  
 NEW SOUTH WALES SHIPWRECKS
The gold rush of 1850 brought a new wave of immigration, and in the decade of 1850-1860, 602,000 hopefuls arrived in the sunburtnt country.
L 130 ft. Traded to most ports in south eastern Australia Struck a rock as she was proceeding down the Clarence River, NSW, and sank, 25 June 1881.
Heavy weather off the southern New South Wales coast forced the convoy in which she was travelling to Iran to scatter; far off course, the tanker ran aground.
oceans1.customer.netspace.net.au /nsw-wrecks.html   (15159 words)

  
 SYDNEY Map. Indexed street map of the City Of Sydney - New South Wales.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Indexed street map of the City Of Sydney - New South Wales.
This map is new and not yet fully indexed.
The city centre is indexed and the major suburban roads and all suburbs are included.
www.arta.com.au /nswmaps/sydney   (136 words)

  
 Lulworth Castle Dorset
The mock castle was built in 1607 - 10 by Thomas Howard, 3rd Viscount Blindon.
The Castle was seriously damaged by a fire in 1929 and remained a shell until the end of the 20th century.
The Castle is a solid, square block of three storeys over a basement.
www.touruk.co.uk /houses/housedor_lulw.htm   (416 words)

  
 World Golf: Discovering Welsh golf
The gorgeous country called Wales, a rocky and rolling, sheep-strewn swath of land squeezed between England and the Irish sea, is, in every stretch of the imagination, home to exceptional -- and widely undiscovered -- golf.
While Wales has a plethora of bold and historic links courses that golfers can sink their pegs into, it's actually this country's golfing future that's getting much of the attention these days.
Courses, castles, and country inns -- mounted along the coastlines, tucked into valleys, the green fairways shadowed by the mountains of Snowdonia and Conwy.
www.worldgolf.com /features/northern-wales-golf.htm   (1533 words)

  
 TravelVoice - Travelers Tips
Specifically, in the Wooster St./Italian section of New Haven, and in the South End of Hartford are some of America's greatest establishments for the greatest of all circular delights.
In New Haven, the most famous of all are Pepe's (or its sibling restaurant, "The Spot," right next door) and Sally's.
Check out Dracula's castle in Bran or his birth house in Sighisoara if you must, but otherwise focus on the beautiful Saxon villages and towns around medieval Brasov, or go to the most traditional region of Europe: Maramures, in the north.
www.travelvoice.com /tips.cfm   (20354 words)

  
 JanFebMar1991Sermons
As she watched she was alerted to a new feeling, something she had never experienced before.
New members were expected to devote every area of their lives to the Communist struggle, and that is the only example that they saw from fellow members.
Jon Noble, Castle Cove, New South Wales, Australia in "To Illustrate...," LEADERSHIP (Spring, 1990), p.
craigpages3.100megsfree5.com /sermons/janfebmar91.html   (18935 words)

  
 PAW December 13, 2006: Letters
EDWARD J. New York, N.Y. The article on John Bellinger and his efforts to defend the human rights of detainees at Guantánamo was a pleasure to read!
From three decades ago, when a preponderance of interested scientists believed we would soon be entering a new ice age, until today, when President Tilghman proclaimed in her Oct.
However, this proposal requires a major modification to become politically viable: The new tax must not increase the overall tax burden on the American taxpayer.
www.princeton.edu /~paw/archive_new/PAW06-07/06-1213/letters.html   (1620 words)

  
 bymnews.com
Wales can be proud of its beaches and we can celebrate a huge improvement in the cleanliness of our bathing waters over the last decade.
Environment Agency Wales is an Assembly Sponsored Public Body which forms part of the corporate England and Wales Environment Agency.
Its primary aim is to protect and enhance the environment and make a contribution towards the delivery of sustainable development through the integrated management of air, land and water.
www.bymnews.com /new/content/view/37735/82   (397 words)

  
 New South Wales Real Estate Agents
New South Wales is Australia’s most populated state - once you have been here, you will understand why so many people love to call this place home.
New South Wales is the home to many superb beaches and pretty coastal towns -  great for dolphin watching, fabulous for fishing, home to some of the most amazing surf spots in Australia.
The capital of New South Wales is Sydney.
www.real-estate-agents-australia.com /new-south-wales-real-estate-agents.html   (293 words)

  
 Central Trains
Atop Pen Dinas, south of the town, is one of the largest Iron Age forts in West Wales, its site now marked by a relic of a relatively modern conflict: an upturned cannon from the Battle of Waterloo.
Formerly the county town of Merionethshire, its formidable castle (left) stands on a rocky outcrop between the sea and the mountains of Snowdonia.
The grave of a 17th century suspected witch who was rolled down the mountain in a spiked barrel is marked by a quartz slab, placed to prevent her ghost from haunting the village.
users.aol.com /WalesRails/ct.htm   (3073 words)

  
 GOLFSelect Australian Golf Course Database - New South Wales   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
New Mollyan Road, Binnaway, New South Wales, 2395.
South Arm Road, Bowraville, New South Wales, 2449.
Deepwater Road, Castle Cove, New South Wales, 2069.
www.golfselect.com.au /armchair/courseList.aspx?state=NSW   (673 words)

  
 Wales pictures and videos on Webshots
The Duches Of York, The Princess Of Wales and The Princ...
Wales - Trace with a beautiful view from a mountain in...
Misty mountains in Wales from the walls of Caernarfon.
www.webshots.com /search?query=Wales&new=1&source=galleryrelated   (349 words)

  
 FURNEAUX GROUP - SHIPWRECKS
The Furneaux Group of island, rocks and shoals extends from the Sisters south for 110 kilometres to Clarke Island, at the south-east entrance to Bass Strait.
From New Zealand for Melbourne, with a cargo of and a complement of twenty-three passengers and fourteen crew, stranded, wrecked, on the Vansittart Shoals, Furneaux Group, 7 September 1855.
Divers discovered the remains of the Sydney Cove on 1 January 1977, and it is now protected as an Historic Shipwreck.The loss of the Sydney Cove is important in Australia’s maritime history.
oceans1.customer.netspace.net.au /furneaux-wrecks.html   (12990 words)

  
 Bradshaw and Whelan British - porcelain books, ceramic books, pottery books, marks   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Over 350 further illustrations are included, covering the shapes of the ware found decorated with printed designs, Spode marks found on the ware and the methods of manufacture used in the past and those practised today.
A new and very well illustrated survey of this prolific firm which manufactured (still does) earthenware, bone china, jasper, basalt, stoneware and Parian.
A new book on the 19th and 20th C potteries and decorating houses in England and Europe, including plates from Brown-Westhead, Moore and Company, Davenport, Doulton, Feuillet, Camille Le Tallec, Meissen, Minton, Sevres, and Wedgwood.
www.ceramicbooks.com /british.htm   (7321 words)

  
 Sieve-Patterned Moray, Gymnothorax cribroris
A Sieve-Patterned Moray at a depth of 3m, Fly Point, Nelson Bay, New South Wales, February 2002.
A Sieve-Patterned Moray at a depth of 4 m, the 'Pipeline', Port Stephens, New South Wales, May 2005.
The Sieve-Patterned Moray endemic to Australia, occuring off north-western Western Australia and southern Queensland to the central coast of New South Wales.
www.austmus.gov.au /fishes/fishfacts/fish/gcribror.htm   (167 words)

  
 New York Cerebral Palsy Information   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Cerebral Palsy is both an agonizing and lifelong condition, and one that with greater oversight during birth, could have been prevented.
While many obstetricians in New York are meticulous and painstaking during the delivery, one small miscalculation can lead to a a lifeTimee of pain and dependence for the newborn baby.
The practice has been devoted to representing people of all ages from almost every walk of life in cases involving birth injuries, cerebral palsy, erb's palsy, delayed diagnosis of cancer, medical malpractice, dangerous drug products, defective products,construction accidents, automobile and other serious injury cases.
www.kerrysteigerwalt.com /public/cerebralpalsy/newyork.html   (456 words)

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